I was aware of him for the High Priest fight but didn't want to muddy the waters. Tried to see if Dusk Rat wants to pleasure of Lobster's company for a while :D


And very badass entrance, yes! One problem temporarily down then!


Get well soon!

Assuming there's nothing else hiding in the Temple that we have to deal with, I think we just need to beat down that last Hybrid to win this one :)

Thanks for the get well wishes there Wuffy :)
Don't worry, I'm determined to at least finish this game before my Endurance runs out! ;)  hehe.
What I wouldn't give for a Kai Curing discipline in real life...

Anyways, excuse me while I bail our resident celebrity out of trouble! ;)
This message was last edited by the player at 20:43, Sun 30 Mar 2014.

That's a generous thing you're doing, Swift Fox - why, I'd even call it a kind gesture... I'm just not sure it qualifies for the "disinterested" descriptor, though.

Everybody else, what do you say? Would Swift freeing Sabre Fox count as her showing kindness of heart or not? :)
As for your question on DC, Swift Fox, there are several options.

1 - You can use Huntmastery to navigate the room without touching any of the glyphs, "dancing" across them, as it goes. That would be a DC 12 Hunting check.

2 - You can use Tracking to "figure out the layout of a maze", which costs 1 WP and requires you to beat a DC 7 check. This would be a one-use only deal - you can use it to get to the abomination and then move out of the glyph covered area, but then you'd need to roll again if you wanted to cross some other "glyph-covered" distance.

3 - Pathsmanship also works if you want to try and decipher the glyphs' meaning and thus understanding the pattern the glyphs are bound by. This costs 4 WP to do, but the DC for the Tracking check is only 3. Also, assuming you beat this one, it would be a permanent solution - you'll keep knowing what glyphs not to step onto even after you're out of the area, and will even be able to teach others where not to step.

4 - Invisibility roll of DC 10 would allow you to copy the movements of the abomination, so that, as long as the half-kai is moving, you'd be able to keep yourself free of the chains by mimicking her; this is a DC 10 Camouflage check, but of course your Invisibility bonus to rolls higher than the Pathsmanship one.

Other options... you haven't the disciplines for them. :)

Feel free to pick your option and then add the proper roll to your last post, Swift Fox; that way, I'll be able to update things with the proper result.
This message was last edited by the GM at 21:19, Sun 30 Mar 2014.

Well, regarding Swift freeing Sabre: it could be considered a kind gesture...or just a rational calculation (considering that it would be really useful to have a fighter of his qualities free again and on our side). :) I just hope someone does finally free him of the magical chains, since Hornet hasn't had much luck (pun intended ^_^) so far.

Also glad to hear that you guys outside have Lobster situation under control :)

Really hoping Swift makes the rational calculation of not running straight into the magical acidic cage thing that's now moving towards her intended target!  (O.o)  hehe.

As for Lobster, I kept expecting him to wake up during the High Priest fight and pounce on some random combatant from behind (hopefully the High Priest himself!) :)
This message was last edited by the player at 22:55, Sun 30 Mar 2014.

I think I'd probably have noticed if he was waking up so he'd've had a kraan to the face for his troubles if he even shifted position slightly ;).

Well that was unexpected.


What's my group waiting for?

Had a feeling he'd wait till we were all out of WP and two of us low on END before he'd show himself, hehe.

In reply to Sun Snake (msg # 21):

You didn't say me what you actually wanted to do, Sun Snake; I didn't realize you were waiting for an answer from me. What is it that you need?

Also, Frost will be offline for the next month or so, so it would be beast if you asked Raven for any magic-related help you might need in character.

Sun Snake was looking for a way in to the temple to help the rest. I was waiting for Frost Ferret to weigh in, or for any of the NPCs such as Silver Raven of Sun Fox to weigh in on the danger.


I'm happy to not go rushing in to let everyone else react and deal with Valador, but I just wanted to check where we were at with outside since you hadn't even started listing options for me to get passed things yet!

Noted; will have a post listing your options in a moment.

It's late here, so feel free to keep the fun of the other thread going first :)

Ah no, I meant to head towards the exit from the room we were heading towards before Valador appeared.  The one leading deeper into the Temple.  I'd assumed that's what Sabre meant...
Sorry, I think my use of exit was a bit misleading there (;~;)
This message was last edited by the player at 16:11, Tue 01 Apr 2014.

Well, this is the central room of the temple - it has no exits that don't lead outside. There's no other inner chamber here, or at least, none that you've seen yet. Thus, you understand, if you tell me exit, there's not any other way I can take it, is there?

If you and Sabre want to edit your posts though, feel free to - just let me know, and then I'll edit mine accordingly. :)

Ah ok...  I'd assumed there was another door or tunnel  on the other side of the glyphs leading to another room or something.
Swift is aiming to get to where Rain Feather and Alyne are, and she would have assumed that's where the High Priest was trying to get to before she caught up to him.

Are there any other visible ways out of this room that don't lead outside?

I was also assuming that there was a way deeper into the temple we were going towards, behind the statue perhaps?

The room if fairly vast, and most of it is shrouded in darkness, which your torch is only parting near the area you are into. Even so, other than the glyphs on the ground, the only other thing in the room which you noticed is the giant statue at the center of it.

If there's anything else in the room, it must be on the other side of the vast room, which is shrouded in the deepest darkness becuase of being too far away from you. Also, you've not yet got close enough to the statue to get a good view of it, or what it represents, through the darkness, so it's possible that something small could be on the other side of it and hidden from view that way - that's something you could check, I guess.

Okies, edited my post to have us headed towards the statue to investigate it closer.
Sorry about that.

Would have fixed it sooner, but my connection seems to be playing April Fools with me right now, so I can only connect occasionally today :(

Yeah, I understand very well how bothersome that can be.

On an happier note, I updated my last post, so that it should apply better to what's going on.

Back now.  At least for the time being :)
I get the feeling we may be leaving poor unaware Hornet alone with someone who's about to zap him in the back at some point...

I think you guys are paranoid: first, distrusting Kai Master Shining Peacock, then, distrusting Brotherhood Mage Valador...those are respectful people and they are here to help us. No need to worry.
<.<
>.>
o.O

Of course, of course.  That's right! :)

*exchanges nervous glance with Sabre...*

Yay for a bit of mindless destruction! :)

Can we hear all this happening from where we are?

Not sure how sync'd up we are, I'm guessing Valador will get to say a little bit more moustache twirling stuff before and explosion rudely interrupts him.

Mustache twirling? How so?